Bridling the Tongue

Only God can tame the tongue; no human can tame the tongue, but our responsibility is to BRIDLE the tongue!

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Series:Words:Life or Death

Today’s Message:

Bridling the Tongue

James 1:26; Isaiah 6:1-8

Pastor Tom Cogle

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Only God can tame the tongue; no human can tame the tongue, but our responsibility is to BRIDLE the tongue!

Three ways to help us bridle our tongue:

1. PAUSE

If you have a problem getting angry, it’s because youhave a problemtalking!If you want to be slow to get angry, you need to be slow to speak.

Proverbs 18:21

The tongue has the power of life and death.

2. PONDER

There are two places we think:

· In our minds

· In our hearts

Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

3. PRAY

Isaiah 6:5

I am a man of unclean lips.

When you really meet with God daily, He will purge your lips and enable you to influence your world.

James 1:26

Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.

Isaiah 6:1-8

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”